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May 2, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Salesforce Launches Communities – Tying the Back Office to the Customer View

By Ben Kepes

As the pace of business increases, and consumers of products or services demand that their provider is more responsive to their particular requirements, there is an ever growing need for customer facing solutions which are integrated with the back office solutions that organizations use to run their sales, marketing and

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November 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloudability Goes GA, Launches Pro Offering

By Ben Kepes

As I’m winging my way to the family reunion that is Defrag, Cloudability, a company I was a very early advisor and investor in, is announcing their product is coming out of beta and going General Availability. This is a proud moment for me – I first met Mat, JR

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October 29, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

HP Storage Webinar–Innovating within a Mature Space

By Ben Kepes

In the oh-so-exciting world of storage, innovation tends to be somewhat incremental – unsurprising given the fairly mature status of the industry. I’m led to believe that HP will be making a significant storage-related announcement at Discover EMEA in December, an event that I’ll be attending. While storage is kind

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October 26, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Open Discussions On Open Cloud

By Ben Kepes

As I go from conference to conference, I’m seeing more and more examples of people talking about the “open cloud.” Proponents talk about choice, flexibility and the inherent safety of the open cloud. Opponents, on the other hand, point to fragmentation, immaturity and concerns about anything that is available without

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October 12, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Private Clouds Must Be Agile

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can

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March 30, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Clarifying the Acronyms – SaaS, PaaS and IaaS

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea,

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March 21, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NZ Cloud Code of Practice

By Ben Kepes

A year or so ago some folks down here in New Zealand started talking about the need for a Cloud Code of Practice to protect consumers and give some marketplace consistency in the rapidly growing Cloud space. I fully support initiatives such as this that find a nice balance between

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January 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

CloudU – Interview with an Industry Insider

By Ben Kepes

Frank Jara is a Sales Consultant talking with customers on a daily basis. Recently he sent us an email to tell us how impressed he was with the material which he’s been using with his customers, partners and colleagues. I wanted to find out what it was about CloudU that

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January 5, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Tips for Organizations Heading to the Cloud

By Ben Kepes

In my travels speaking with organizations looking to move to the Cloud, I’m often confronted by folks who have an innate distrust of all things Cloud. These folks are easy to deals with; I respect their opinion (despite entirely disagreeing with it) and am happy enough to leave them alone

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December 22, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Don’t Wait for the Pros, Experiment!

By Ben Kepes

In a recent CloudU report we talked about the fact that a lack of formal Cloud Computing qualifications is something of a barrier to organizations adopting the Cloud. It’s something we’re trying, in some small way, to address with the CloudU certificate, but nonetheless the fact remains that when it

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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